“I fully knew what I was doing when I interviewed Trump,” he said. “I knew I had a guy who loved to talk about sex. I had a guy who loved to evaluate women on a scale of 1-10. These are avenues I went down because I knew it would entertain the audience.”

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“I wasn’t imagining that I would be in the middle of this election and literally so prominently mentioned,” he continued, referencing the current presidential election. “Quite frankly, as someone just said, I’m surprised they didn’t find these earlier. There’s nothing to find.”

“As the guy said, they were right there in the open.”

Stern recalled being surprised when Trump told him he was going to run for president.

“I said, ‘Why are you doing this?’ Why would a guy with billions of dollars [run for president]? Don’t you know what they’re gonna do to you? Don’t you know they’re gonna open up everything?”

“But this idea of ‘locker room talk’ — all the times I’ve been around guys, and believe me when I’m around guys 85 percent of the times you’re talking about pussy, but I have never been in the room when someone has said ‘grab them by the pussy.”

“No one has ever advocated going that step where you get a little bit, ‘Hey I’m going to invade someone’s space.’ A lot of [locker room banter is] real kind of desperate talk.”